I Know That God Does Not Exist

Why not? The vast majority of good that I do for people is through my taxes. It isn't rocket science. Americans give more because they have more, not because they're more religious.

The phone book is data for some. You can either use it for its intended purpose or you can misuses it.

Well, that's the point. Believers treat the Bible as if it had an intended purpose. They might just as well use the phone book to predict lottery numbers.

I predict that you'll lose that argument but go ahead and make it. Or is it just another one of your assertions? Exactly.

Lots of people believe in God but not in the Bible. You'd have to believe in a particular myth about God to believe that the Bible has one specific purpose.It would also be possible for an atheist to believe that the Bible has one specific purpose, though he would have no vested interest in it. Well, the evidence suggests that the Bible does not have a single purpose, so I don't see the parallel.

But it isn't the same. He can make a negative claim based on lack of evidence. We do that for leprechauns and unicorns and a thousand other things. But you can not make a positive claim based on lack of evidence. I'm saying that we have evidence for natural processes. That's what you asked for. The evolutionary proceses are based on the emergent properties of matter, the same as the boiling process. No need for any voodoo. And?

No, that is not what we are talking about. We are talking about a net result. Your claim was that religious people do more to help people than non-religious people. Even if it was possible to measure such a thing, you don't get to keep changing the rules to make your conclusion right. That sounds suspiciously like the No True Christian defence: If a person's contribution doesn't measure up to your claim, he's no true Christian.

"Root causes" is a red herring. If you propose pre-existing intelligence as a root cause of processes, you still don't know the root cause of the root cause. "We can not find any sign of God," is not a positive claim. It can be backed by lack of evidence. "Evidence for why" is another red herring. It gets you nowhere. We have evidence that it could have happened that way.

You can't separate good done through taxes from good done through other means.

Indeed it is. Maybe that's a clue that you shouldn't be on the path to Christ.

You probably don't want to go down the "few are chosen" road unless you're ready to admit that the many are going to roast in Hell.

What is the fundamental reason that God exists? For fuck's sake....Physics, chemistry, biology....

But that isn't true unless you artificially change the criteria to make it true.

That's from your perspective, not "ours". From my perspective, I "can exist" quite nicely without a God. Asked and answered: same reason why God exists. Intelligence is a product of physics, chemistry and biology.

As I've said, we need to consider everything that a person contributes, whether through voluntary charity or through taxation or through organized good-deed-doing or through just being a good citizen in general.